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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1593–1632)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Mother · anthology attribution: George Herbert
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